Monday, August 30, 2010

In the excitement of having my one liner published on Dearoldlove.com last week, I decided to tell someone who I once dated that I was going to submit a one liner about him! Well, not only did the owner of the site publish it....but he wrote back and said "I love this one!" which made me feel pretty awesome! It's fun....I find it fun.....it's the little things isnt it?

I was just trying to go to the site to get a screen cap of my 2 (yes 2) newly published quotes but the site is down! Did I kill "Dear Old Love"!? I managed to get a screen cap from the mobile version on my phone yesterday and here it is.

So I managed to sell something on Etsy. OMG LOL WTF BRB!!!!
As you all may know...Etsy is so vast , that its almost near impossible for your shop to ever get noticed, but it's true. I sold a bug, one of my aqua cicadas. Check me out, here :

:::sigh:::: Nothing is easy now a days is it? Not even walking. I bet, in the 1800s before proper roads existed, people wandered around the streets willy nilly and never got shit about it....but now, in 2010.....the thought police wants to tell us where to walk and how to walk. I suggest they permanently implimenting Monty Pythons Silly Walk....make it more amusing for themselves.

I was walking to work this morning from the parking garage....usually, I cross the street, enter the alley and walk to work where I enter from the back door. TODAY however, I was greeted in the middle of the street by a police officer....he signaled me over with his hand. I walked over and with a slight annoyance said "Jaywalking." ..... then he accused me of giving him an attitude.

Reason for the attitude:

Other than the fact that this isnt one of the main roads in Coral Gables, If we look at the image below.....we can see the two ways we can cross the street into the alley. The red, is the SUGGESTED way and the yellow is my way. Growing up as a child my mother never told me to look both ways before crossing....I assume she knew it was implied by pure logic. I have made it this far in life without getting hit by a car (Although sometimes I crave for a speeding bus to do me in) and it pisses me off to have some dude telling me how to walk. F--- OFF THOUGHT WALK POLICE!

Oh....let me mention....I got my name added to a list for this, I got blacklisted for jaywalking!!!! What the f---.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

I'm sure many of us (particularly those who have seen Pee Wee's Big Adventure or owned their very own box of Kinex in the 80's) have thought of building a machine that would save us the trouble of having to toast our own bread, make coffee, let the dog out, and other routine morning tasks.

Although, Arthur Gansons kinetic sculptures arent as practical as Pee Wee's, they are ing-tricate, ing-teresting, ing-credible, and ing-spiring. (Sorry I just had to do that!) Above you will find a video named "Corys Yellow Chair", the video is a little dark, but it is purely for dramatic purposes. Below you will find another one I like called "Machine With Abandoned Doll" Check out his other videos on youtube, enjoy, and be amazed!

This is one of the blogs I follow. Similar in style to Passive Aggressive Notes or Post Secrets, "Dear Old Love" is composed of reader submitted notes. The difference is that these notes are submitted by readers to those they love or loved, requited or not. Stop by and check out "Dear Old Love" and feel free to email them and see if they post one of your own clever one liners!

Check out the other blogs too! They're very entertaining :)..... I promise, it's true.

After waiting and waiting and waiting, I find that Richard is still dead. Yes folks, everything we've see in the movies is untrue. Whoopie Goldberg hasnt shown up to help me communicate with him...Listening to white noise on television has only annoyed me....I even went to Haley Joel Osment, who told me to get a grip and get off his property immedietly!

I went through really old emails of ours and found a file he sent me a while back. At the time, I tried opening it but it wouldnt play because I didnt have Real Player on my computer. He told me to download Real Player and I said "no". Then he bitched at me for being so fucking lazy, to which I replied "Who the fuck uses Real Player now a days anyway!?"...... :::sigh:::: I miss him so much already.....

Anyway, I finally opened the file, Richard. A little late, but it couldnt have been at a more suitable time....

Ah, the sweet sound of Ella replaced with the cripiling feeling of losing someone you love. Im sure he had no clue that this song plays almost daily where I work. What a drag.

He posted this same song on my Myspace page only days before he passed...but the Myspace version was less upbeat and an orange muppet with big blue eyes was singing it. It was funny in the saddest way possible..... he loved making these videos, they amused him so much.

My friend Richard died........I found out today. It's been raining all day and I feel like weather.

I wasnt going to blog about this because its too sad...but I blog about death often enough that that it is almost suitable to use this as an outlet to cope or... express myself...or whateverthefuckidontknow.

As I stated in my will which I wrote years ago and just revised two weeks before he passed :

VERY IMPORTANT I need someone to call Richard….tell him I loved him very much and always appreciated him being there for me. He’s the father I never had I'm sorry I had to go before he did. “No habla espanol”

....and by that, I'm sure you can all imagine how much pain I am in right now.
I dont know what to do.

As usual, when these things happen....I wasn't able to say bye. It kills me. I have never lost anyone this close to me and I now understand how those people feel when they look around and realize that this person is truly gone...no magical materializing in the middle of the night, no messages through white noise, ...nothing....just that. Not being able to say bye to the person you love is heartbreaking...now I know.

I have been so caught up with unimportant shit and I just didn't want to bring him down so I haven't called in a few weeks. I feel I should have been more aware of how bad his condition was getting. I should stop finding reasons to blame myself.

Anyway, judging by the video he posted on my myspace page just days before he died...I am assuming he knew.

Im sure he had no clue that this song plays almost daily where I work. What a drag. The sweet sound of Ella replaced with the crippling feeling of losing someone you love.

So I guess I should take this moment to say bye....

Richard,

I love you more than I love my father....and hurts me so much that I can no longer pick up a phone and call you, and that you wont be walking me down the isle like i imagined. What makes me the most sad is that with time, I wont remember your voice anymore, but I will always miss you and love you and I promise that I will never forget you. All the times you said ridiculous shit, lectured me, tried to help, made me laugh...and did that terrible English accent (that amused me so much) when you pretended that "Zilly" grabbed the phone from you. I will never meet anyone else like you......RIP Richard <3 I love you so much.

There...

And if someone says "He went to a better place" one more time Im going to stab one of you!
Its not a better place...he died....death....darkness....not a better place at all.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

G20: there's a planetary grand square today
BITCH FACE: Whats that mean Walter Mercado?
G20: it means it's gonna be a tough day with our minds going crazy
G20: but we have to sit through it during these next 24 hours
BITCH FACE: hahaha thats me every day
G20: and not react
BITCH FACE: ok i'll sit quietly

Friday, August 6, 2010

I heard her talk at the Ted Conference a while back, and just recently I was reading an article and her name came up in it....Helen Fisher is a Behavioral Anthropologist, writer, and professor, who's studies focus on love, and the effect it has on people.

As someone who loves love, loves romanticism, making love, everything about it, even to some degree the loss and pain that comes with it. I find her work very interesting and I just wanted to share.

In her Ted talk she spoke about her study, where she put 32 people in an MRI machine. Some of these people were freshly in love, some in long term marriages, and some were suffering from having lost someone they love. She asked them all the same questions and found....well, listen to the talk :)

I have been thinking of getting this book by her called The Anatomy of Love where she examines the entire process of falling in love, from courting, to infatuation, marriage,breaking up etc. She writes about the changes our bodies go through physically, mentally, and emotionally. She also speaks of Darwin's theories on love and how some things we do to attract people aren't learned but instilled in us through evolution, like smiling. She notes that babies who are born blind still exhibit the same inclination to smile as babies born with sight.

"Friends,I regret to inform you that I'm suffering from a terrible condition that is no joking matter. It's called Dance Fever and if it's not taken care of SOON, I may have no choice but to take my own life." - Ana A.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

I hate when people at work share snacks with you that they think are AWESOME....
because sometimes you try it.....and you say to yourself "NOTAWESOME".

So, you pretend it's the most amazing shit youve ever had, just so they wont feel bad about it.

They walk away, and you think.... "Glad thats over.."

BUT THEN, they return another day and they offer you more of that same shit because they think you LOVED IT the first time.....and youre stuck on this loop for eternity having to eat this SHIT you dont like just cuz you lied to make them happy....

They're your co-workers...so you cant back-track and be like:

"Listen, I cant eat this crap anymore, I lied the first time...Id rather eatmy own vomit than this SHIT...now, take it, and go!"

because then you look like a rude, disgusting, liar.

So in the end, being cordial is bullshit....just let them know its wack in the first place.... lesson learnt!

This has happened to me a few times already....I should have drawn the line at rice cakes.....